In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States — though Alexander notes that the discrimination faced by African-American males is also prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow."

Overview

Though the conventional point of view holds that discrimination has mostly ended with the civil rights movement reforms of the 1960s, Alexander posits that the U.S. criminal justice system uses the War on Drugs as a primary tool for enforcing traditional, as well as new, modes of discrimination and repression. These new modes of racism have led to not only the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but also an even greater imprisonment of African American men. Were present trends to continue, Alexander writes, the United States will imprison one-third of its African American population. When combined with the fact that whites are more likely to commit drug crimes than people of color, the issue becomes clear for Alexander: "The primary targets of [the penal system's] control can be defined largely by race."

Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. They mandated de jureracial segregation in all public facilities in states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Conditions for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to white Americans. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern states, while Northern segregation was generally de facto — patterns of housing segregation enforced by private covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory labor union practices.

Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated, as were federal workplaces, initiated in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, the first Southern president elected since 1856. By requiring candidates to submit photos, his administration practiced racial discrimination in hiring.

Jim Crow (archetype)

Jim Crow is minstrel typecast and character created c. 1830 by a Caucasoid minstrel show performer of the United States known as Thomas D. Rice, who wore blackface while singing and dancing madly, thus creating this character. The character was in story Rice's emulation of a debatedly young or old negro male that Rice had seen in his travels through the Southern United States; Rice included singing this refrain at the end of the chorus:

"Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."

It is believed that a man named Mr. Crow owned this slave, and this is why the name Jim Crow took hold. Rice incorporated this routine into his trade, and by the 1850s, the Jim Crow character had become a standard in his industry throughout the early parts of the United States.

The term "Jim Crow" is also used in a disparaging or derogatory way to refer to people, largely African Americans, that act in a similar way to the original Jim Crow of the song; singing, dancing, and jumping; often wildly, and otherwise being foolish. This term has connotations of being uneducated, unproductive, or unprofessional.

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Daryl Atkinson and Michelle Alexander on HuffPost Live

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190

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Michelle Alexander Live and Kane The Professor Birthday 08 05 2017 at The Daiquiri Cafe

Michelle Alexander Live and Kane The Professor Birthday 08 05 2017 at The Daiquiri Cafe

Michelle Alexander Live and Kane The Professor Birthday 08 05 2017 at The Daiquiri Cafe

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Daryl Atkinson and Michelle Alexander on HuffPost Live

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190

published: 03 Jul 2014

Michelle Alexander Live and Kane The Professor Birthday 08 05 2017 at The Daiquiri Cafe

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx e...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Daryl Atkinson and Michelle Alexander on HuffPost Live

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re...

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Daryl Atkinson and Michelle Alexander on HuffPost Live

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. After convicts are released, they often struggle to re-enter society. HuffPost Live explores the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated people in America.
Originally aired at: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/how-america-excludes-ex-convicts/53a3476002a7609359000190